Originally from Scotland, Lorna Gold has been an active leader for years in Catholic work on integral ecology and creation care. As an official with Trocaire, the Irish bishops' overseas development agency, she was instrumental in campaigns that led to Ireland and its bishops financially divesting from fossil fuels.
More recently, she served as executive director of FaithInvest, an international network of religious social impact investors. She has attended numerous United Nations climate summits and met with the late Pope Francis on multiple occasions.
A founding member of the lay-led Laudato Si' Movement, Lorna had been board president since 2020 and a board member since 2017. Now she leads the network — consisting of more than 900 member organisations in 192 countries, 70-plus chapters and 20,000 “animators”— with its mission of bringing to life Francis' 2015 encyclical "
Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home.